China's Core Interests and Dilemma in Foreign Policy Practice

Pacific Focus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinghao Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Practice

“Sovereign Democracy” Discourse in the Russian Foreign Policy

2018 ◽  
pp. 178-200
Author(s):  
Neziha Musaoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Russian Foreign Policy ◽  
The West ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The One

Many important changes occurred in the Russian Federation's foreign policy since 2000s with Putin's coming to power. Although the foreign policy is defined as pragmatic during this period, it is in fact ideologically constructed on the basis of the concept of “sovereign democracy.” The concept constitutes in the same time the source of loyalty of the Russian reelpolitik towards the West, especially the USA and of the Russian anti-globalist policies. The aim of this chapter is to analyze the intellectual, normative, and conceptual dimensions of the “sovereign democracy” concept that could serve to conceive the foreign policy practice of the Russian Federation, on the one hand, and on the other hand its dialectical relationships with the West in the era of globalization.

19. Enlargement

2020 ◽  
pp. 440-468
Author(s):  
Ulrich Sedelmeier
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Member States ◽  
New Member States ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
External Governance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

This chapter examines the main phases of the European Union’s enlargement policy process—association, pre-accession, and accession—and the key decisions involved in each of these stages. It discusses how these decisions are made, and how policy practice has evolved over time. The chapter then explores enlargement as a tool of foreign policy and external governance. It discusses the development of the EU’s accession conditionality as an instrument to influence domestic change in candidate countries and why conditionality appears to have become less effective after the 2007 enlargement round, including the impact of the EU’s ‘enlargement fatigue’ and manifestations of ‘democratic backsliding’ among new member states.

scholarly journals The AK Party’s Islamic Realist Political Vision: Theory and Practice

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malik Mufti
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Hard Power ◽  
Islamist Movement ◽  
Actual Policy

The currently governing Turkish AK Party’s reformist agenda at home and its increasingly assertive policies abroad, like the “soft” and “hard” power elements of its foreign policy, reflect a remarkable coherence and continuity in the political vision of the party leadership. That vision—a contemporary manifestation (sometimes described as “neo-Ottomanism”) of an older tradition of Islamic realism—is explicated through a detailed analysis of the speeches and writings of the main AK Party leaders, as well as of their opponents within the Islamist movement, and correlated with actual policy practice. It is further suggested that the AK Party’s preoccupation with its traditional secular-nationalist (Kemalist) adversaries has left it unprepared to confront an even more formidable looming challenge: liberalism.

Applying Chinese IR theory to foreign policy practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
Adam Grydehøj ◽  
Ping Su
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Ir Theory ◽  
Policy Practice

Gender and Peaceful Change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Aggestam ◽  
Annika Bergman Rosamond
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Maternal Care ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Strategic Essentialism ◽  
Intrastate Conflicts ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Peace And Security

This chapter examines the interplay between gender and peaceful change. It elaborates on how the concept of peace is inherently gendered by drawing upon feminist scholarship. There are a number of ways to conceptualize gender and peaceful change. The “women-peace hypothesis” assumes a proximity between women’s peacefulness and their experiences of maternal care. However, such a construction needs to be treated with caution since transformative peace requires deconstruction of that assumption, while staying attentive to women’s contributions to peacemaking. Debates on strategic essentialism and inclusive peace are also assessed as a way of gaining deeper and more meaningful understandings of gender-just peaceful change. We argue that women’s unique experiences pertaining to peace and conflict should be considered alongside those of men. In addition, we examine the assumption about states with a poor record on gender inequality are more likely to be involved in intrastate conflicts. The last part of the chapter focuses on policy practice, including the adoption of UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security and the reorientation in some states toward feminist foreign policy as a platform for peaceful change.

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